Last week, the kids and I saw a mouse, in the house. It was an afternoon, and the mouse was quite busy and I was able to identify its route and what I think was the entry pretty easily. (I saw it in the evenings a couple of times as well.)
The mister and I decided to try to catch it first, then seal up suspected entry point. (Some difficulties will be involved there, due to anomalies of plumbing and electricity in our 50's slab ranch...) So I perused the selection of pest control devices at the grocery store, bought the biggest box, which used the word "arsenal" and contained a variety of traps.
Yesterday afternoon the mister placed a snap trap at suspected entry, a poison trap in the laundry/pantry and two glue traps, one between fridge/wall and one at the back of the stove. All areas we have seen the mouse travel, but inaccessible to the kids (6.5 and 2.5). Checked all the traps before bed, nothing. Checked the traps this morning before the kids got up - the glue trap next to the fridge is missing. Gone. Not behind the fridge, and I'm reasonably certain not under, I checked as best I could. Is it likely the mouse was only partially trapped and ran off with it somewhere? I'm stumped!
For those of you who have dealt with an uninvited rodent, what wisdom do you have to impart?
-Karen-